Erin Buggy

Erin is a post-doctoral resident who earned her doctorate in Clinical Psychology (Psy.D) from Northern Arizona University’s clinical psychology program. During her tenure as a graduate student, Erin regularly served as a teaching assistant for a variety of therapy, psychopathology, and ethics courses. Toggling for numerous years between student, assistant teacher, and trainee allowed Erin to dive deeply into the science, practice, and art of psychotherapy.

Erin’s dissertation involved developing a novel, integrative theoretical approach to understanding and approaching treatment of complex PSTD, the findings of which she has been invited to share on both state and national psychology association platforms. In 2023, Erin was formally recognized by NAU’s College of Education as the “Outstanding Doctoral Student from the department of Clinical Psychology” for her ongoing excellence and unique contributions to the program.

Erin is passionate about healing, mentoring, teaching, learning, growing, connecting, collaborating, creating, advocating, and leading. Her time and energy are often spent pursuing these aims through her work as a psychologist and when communing with loved ones, snuggling her cats, and engaging in various hobbies and forms of self-care.

I believe deeply in our innate human capacity to heal, grow, overcome, and evolve into our fullest potential. And what I know is that when conditions are ideal, that is, when we feel truly understood, accepted, known, and safe to be our whole selves, incredible insights and meaningful shifts are both possible and probable. Time and again, in my role as therapist, I have witnessed the alchemical power of both attuned provider and willing client showing up fully, honestly, and ready to lean in to the work.

While taking the initial leap into therapy can feel unsettling, with me you are likely to soon see that my interpersonal style is warm, my office welcoming, and our work highly collaborative. You can anticipate feeling respected, heard, supported, and accepted. You will also encounter tactful honesty, curiosity and compassion, discomfort and relief, tears, laughter, and even joy (because therapy really isn’t all drudgery). I will meet you where you are at, tailor your treatment accordingly, use a combination of intervention strategies, and work as hard as you.

I welcome you to join me in the sacred and special space we call therapy.